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Living with the LHA: claimants’ experiences after fifteen months of the LHA in the nine Pathfinder Areas
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posted on 2007-02-13, 13:39 authored by Simon Roberts, Jacqueline Beckhelling, Viet-Hai Phung, Richard Boreham, Tom Anderson, Nai LiAs part of its reform of Housing Benefit, the Government has introduced, in selected local authority areas,
a Local Housing Allowance (LHA). This is payable to low income tenants in the private rented sector. The
overall aim of LHA is to empower tenants by giving them more choice over, and responsibility for, their
housing decisions. Associated with this, LHA aims to promote fairness, transparency and simplicity and to
increase work incentives. The Department for Work and Pensions has commissioned an evaluation of LHA
in nine local authorities, or Pathfinder areas. The evaluation design includes surveys which track claimants
on LHA over a period of two years after its introduction in each Pathfinder area. This report presents
findings from administrative data, the survey baseline and the first two waves of interviews with claimants,
and covers the period up to fifteen months after the start of LHA in each Pathfinder area. The report draws
on contributions by researchers from the Centre for Research in Social Policy and the National Centre for
Social Research as well as analysts from the Department for Work and Pensions.
The survey data compares the nine Pathfinder areas with the three Control areas. The DWP administrative
data compares the nine Pathfinder areas with the three Control areas and a further six areas. These nine
areas (the three Control areas and six additional areas) are referred to as Comparator areas.
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ROBERTS, S. ... et al, 2006. Living with the LHA: claimants’ experiences after fifteen months of the LHA in the nine Pathfinder Areas. Local Housing Allowance evaluation report; 9. London : Department for Work and Pensions.Publisher
© Department for Work and PensionsPublication date
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This report is also available at: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/lha-report-9.pdfBook series
Local Housing Allowance evaluation report;9Language
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